COMMENTARY | The day after he refused to take a stance on Ohio's Issue 2, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney jumped on the Gov. John Kasich bandwagon to endorse the controversial union-busting bill.
The problem for Romney is this week's Quinnipiac poll shows the issue losing by 25 points. Ohio Issue 2 is a voter referendum to overturn Senate Bill 5, which virtually eliminates public unions' collective bargaining rights. In the final poll before the election, 57 percent of those polled believe the law should be overturned.
Romney isn't the only Republican hopeful to climb on the bandwagon, according to the Associated Press. "True conservative" Rick Perry said "Gov. Kasich and the Republican leadership of Ohio are to be commended for their efforts." Also-ran Jon Huntsman preferred to use a true conservative medium to Tweet his message: "Unlike @MittRomney, I stand with John Kasich in opposing the individual mandate and supporting public sector union reform."
Even with its past position as a strong swing state, Ohio is solidly on the right. The 2010 midterm elections washed a red wave over state government, giving control of the House and Senate to the Republicans. But with the citizens so polarized over the attack on unions, this GOP allegiance could spell Buckeye doom for any presidential candidate endorsing the end of collective bargaining.
As the GOP race changes front-runners more often than Lindsay Lohan goes to jail, Romney would have been smart to ignore the baiting from Perry and Huntsman. While in Ohio, he preferred to look at his supporters and defer to states' rights. Yet, once he was near Washington, he felt removed enough from those Ohioans to voice his support for the measure.
Maybe Romney thought no one in Ohio would hear him from Washington.
There are many Ohioans that do support Issue 2 and it's certain Romney, Perry and Huntsman were pandering to those voters. Unfortunately for them, the GOP candidates who keep quiet about such a decisive states' rights issue might race back to the top of the leaderboard.
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